Sara Johnsen
Norwegian film director, screen writer, and writer (born 1970)
About Sara Johnsen
Born 1970. Sara Johnsen is a Norwegian film director, screenwriter, film screenwriter, writer and director.
Sara Johnsen (born 4 March 1970) is a Norwegian film director and author.
Career Johnsen's first feature film Kissed by Winter was nominated for the 2005 Nordic Council Film Prize. Johnsen was an additional writer on the first series of the television series Occupied (2015). In 2020, she created and wrote the series 22 juli about the Utoya mass shooting with her husband Pål Sletaune. At the Göteborg Film Festival she was awarded the 2020 Nordic TV Drama Screenplay Award for her work on 22 juli. She was awarded the Fritt Ord Honorary Award in 2020, along with Pål Sletaune.
Johnsen has written the novels White Man and He Knows Something She Can Try.
Selected filmography
Awards The Kanon Award (2006) Amanda Award (2010) Fritt Ord Honorary Award (2020)
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Norwegian film director, screen writer, and writer (born 1970)
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Sara Johnsen was born on 4 March 1970 in Nes Municipality, Oslo.
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Sara Johnsen is a film director, screenwriter, film screenwriter, writer and director.
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Sara Johnsen is Norwegian.
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